, is i'm -- i don't want to put words in your mouth. but of all the 35 proposals president obama has put forward, which ones would you actually agree with in terms of introducing more gun safety in america? >> before i get to that question, which i will get to. i want to go and deal with the points that you were just raising. and that was, it is not me. you look at the national academy of sciences in 2004, they looked at -- they looked at all the academic studies that have been done. and they could not find any evidence that the types of bans that you're talking about have reduced any type of violent crime. you look at the studies funded by the clinton administration. they could not find any evidence that those types of bans -- >> let me give you some, let me give you some. let me give you some, mr. lott, you just said what you said, let me answer you. in 1996, as you know there was a horrible mass shooting in australia, 35 people killed. they brought in extensive gun control and bans in australia, in the ten-year period leading up to that there were 18 mass shootings in australia, do yo